When Agathiyar asked me to come to the worship of the Siddhas in 2002, the Nadi reader Senthilkumar initiated me into the recitation of Siddha names during the ritual and Parikaram known as "Nadiku Thanam." He passed me the booklet carrying these names, while Sivabalan, who brought him in from India, passed me a painting of Agathiyar. They showed me that the Siddhas and Agathiyar have a name and physical form.
The late Dr.Krishnan, in making a Yantra of Agathiyar to be worshipped, showed us that Agathiyar can be worshipped as mandalas and geometric yantras etched in copper foils.
Coming to know Tavayogi he introduced Agathiyar as God.
அருள் ஞான ஜோதியே அகத்தின் ஜோதி தனிப்பெரும் கடவுளே அகத்தீஸ்வரர் ஆவார்.
In initiating my wife and me and several others in Malaysia in 2005, in passing us Agathiyar's Moola Mantra to chant, Agathiyar came as sacred syllables, put together to effect a change in us. Chanting this mantra brings Agathiyar to take notice of us.
After Agathiyar directed me to Tavayogi to get initiated again, coming in a Nadi reading days later, Tavayogi just touched my shoulders and sent me off. Agathiyar was the touch then.
The morning after I arrived at his ashram, a couple of months after he left Malaysia for his ashram, he told me that Agathiyar had come to him at the ashram in the form of light.
Agathiyar had opened his left eye in his granite statue at Agasthiyampalli and later both eyes at Papanasam, as Tavayogi accompanied me later. He was in the statue too.
In bringing me back into nature, the jungles and caves, Tavayogi brought my attention to:
- the breeze that brushed across our faces and ran a chill down our backs;
- the sun's rays that filtered through the trees and branches and warmed our bodies, and the earth.
- the icy-cold waters of rivers laden with the essence of medicinal herbal plants that lined the banks of these rivers;
- the Prana or Chi in the air that nourished us;
- the green lungs and meadows drenched in the morning dew;
- and to the bright, clear skies that occasionally rained on us its light showers, telling me that the Siddhas were ushering us.
Thavathiru Rengarajah Desiga Swamigal writes in his piece "Supramaniar Kadavulanatu Yeppadi" that Nature is God. Man and all creation are part of Nature. Nature creates, sustains, and destroys him.
எல்லாம் வல்ல இயற்க்கை தான் கடவுள். அந்த இயற்க்கையின் கூறுதான் மனிதனும் மற்ற ஜீவ ராசிகளும். அந்த இயற்க்கை இவனைப் பிறப்பிப்பதும், வாழ்விப்பதும், அழிவிப்பதுமாக இருக்கிறது.
In initiating me again, just before I returned to Malaysia, Tavayogi told me that the breath was God.
Agathiyar, coming to my home as a bronze statue in 2010, asked us to breathe life into his statue through chanting his name 100,000 times. Taking the tool of Yoga that Tavayogi, Pathanjali, and Agathiyar gave us, in 2007, we then went within, and we came to worship the breath.
Later in 2013, stepping out from Agathiyar's Sannadhi at the Natatru Eeeswar Temple, Kangayampalayam, Erode, with my family, Tavayogi turned around to me and told me that Agathiyar was Lord Siva.
Agathiyar then comes as a particular species of birds. Speaking through his Nadi, in 2019, he told me to feed "Pullikal" when I returned home. The Nadi reader clarified that he had meant the spotted bird. I had never seen one and was wondering where I was going to find or locate them. What do you know? They were waiting in my garden when I arrived home. They had never been there before. They were in our garden for a period of time before they left. I googled and found out that they were Lonchura punctulata, or locally known as Burung Pipit.
Lord Muruga used to come as a magpie to accompany my daughter when she was in the university, too. The magpie that used to accompany my second daughter on her university grounds here in Malaysia was seen with her in South Korea, too, where she was doing an exchange program. How do we explain this? Lord Murugan told us he came in this form to accompany her, while Goddess Ma tells us that she is in good hands. What else do we want?
The Gods come in the most unlikely manner and form when we need them most. My late father used to tell us his story of how Lord Muruga came in the form of a bee and drove away some wild dogs that had circled him as he made his pilgrimage on foot from his village, Kilsevalpatti, to Palani. This miracle happened when he called out Lord Muruga's name. A bee came from nowhere and entered the ear of one of the dogs, and sent the pack scattering away when the dog howled in pain.
I understand today that Tavayogi began to gradually introduce me to other forms of Agathiyar as I progressed. These are the many names and forms Agathiyar takes, coming before each aspirant according to his or her state of spiritual development, just as Siddha physician Dr.Bhani mentioned how a song by the lady saint Avaiyar took varied forms too. As a kid, he knew it to be a song sung before Lord Ganesha. Later, taking up the study of Siddha medicine, his guru told him that the song described medicine. Finding his way to Yogi Ramaiah, he came to know that it was a song of Gnanam.